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06/28/2011

I came late to my Civil War obsession, waiting until college to develop an enthusiasm. Although by that point I had already spent a number of years fascinated by military history, it wasn't until 1993 that two events shifted my focus to that most American of wars-- my reading of James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, and the movie Gettysburg.

Suddenly, an era I had previously condemned as musty and irrelevant took on new life, and I was hooked. Becoming a Civil War buff while living in Virginia was as easy as getting out of bed in the morning. I became a voracious reader of Civil War history, and I took advantage of every opportunity to visit the many battlefields preserved here on the East Coast. Unlike anything else in American history, the Civil War was still tangible, could still be touched, as real as any German castle or Britannic henge.

Shelby Foote's three-volume history of the Civil War weren't the first books I read about the war, nor were they my favorite. Yet, like millions of Americans, Foote's narrative occupies a fond place in my memory. His eloquence and perspective was warmly welcomed onto my bookshelf.

There are many "essential" Civil War histories worthy of your time, and quite a few significantly more historically rigorous, but Foote's is by far the most poetic. Whether he captured all the facts of the Civil War remains in dispute, but he certainly captured the feel of that most terrible of wars.

06/21/2011

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06/13/2011

This here New York Times op-ed is garnering notice today for its insightful discussion and illuminating wisdom on the role of madrassas in Islamic terrorism.

Oops, sorry, I got confused there for a moment-- this editorial is crap:

While madrassas may breed fundamentalists who have learned to recite the Koran in Arabic by rote, such schools do not teach the technical or linguistic skills necessary to be an effective terrorist. Indeed, there is little or no evidence that madrassas produce terrorists capable of attacking the West. And as a matter of national security, the United States doesn't need to worry about Muslim fundamentalists with whom we may disagree, but about terrorists who want to attack us. . . .

Like the view that poverty drives terrorism - a notion that countless studies have debunked - the idea that madrassas are incubating the next generation of terrorists offers the soothing illusion that desperate, ignorant automatons are attacking us rather than college graduates, as is often the case. In fact, two of the terrorists in our study had doctorates from Western universities, and two others were working toward their Ph.D.

Okay, let's take a step back for a moment.

Hmmm. . . because the 9/11 terrorists were somewhat educated, we shouldn't worry about any schools teaching stupid terrorists?

Anyone know how long madrassas have been in business? I've always understood them to be a relatively recent phenomenon (last 15-20 years), thus terrorists above a certain age by definition would never have been exposed to a madrassa education.

Even so, simply because the current generation of terrorist leaders never passed through a madrassa is meaningless to the *next* generation of terrorists that receive their years of education in hatred. Regardless of whether madrassa students go on to become a terrorist or a teamster, how can there be any good in rote learning that Jews are dogs, women are chattel, and Americans the great Satan?

Excuse me, but I'd rather have our enemy illiterate and friendly than angry with a 6th-grade education in evil.

But you see, the authors argue that madrassas don't teach skills directly applicable to skills like bombmaking and head-hacking. Gee, since you guys didn't learn how to build an IED in shop class, well then, you get a pass.

Of course, the madrassa's steady diet of hate merely motivates the students to later take Terrorism 201 at the Jihadi Technical Institute, where they can go on to earn their degree in Hawala accounting, gun repair, or scalp(ing) care. Or, even if the madrassa graduate never signs up for a terrorist cell, they're less likely to see any problems with the neighbors doing so. You're fashioning an enabling culture of hate.

Not all of our enemies in this war will be an educated mastermind like Mohammed Atta or Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. There are and will continue to be foot soldiers. And some of them-- perhaps many of them-- will receive their education and training in madrassas that teach hatred. Not necessarily how to fight, but they will definitely teach them why they fight.

Yet, the authors of this editorial would have us believe that we need only worry about the Hitlers and Himmlers, and that it is the height of folly to worry about the Hitler Youth. C'mon, all the real Nazis attended university during the Second Reich, or in the years of Weimar, so why worry about Nazi schools?

06/08/2011

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04/25/2011

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02/23/2007

Had a HUGE briefing planned for this morning. Worked on it for two weeks, coordinated it with everybody and their mother, finally was standing in front of the door of the man I was about to present everything to. . . only to have it postponed two minutes before I was going in.

Hurry up and wait. . . I so do love it here!

Whatever, it comes with the territory. At least now, if I'm gonna get bumped, I'd rather get bumped by a Deputy Under Secretary than by an Air Force Colonel any day. It's MUCH easier on the ego.

The best comment about Miss Spears over at WWTD: "Bullets won't stop that. Only prayers and the magic of dance."

I just don't get it. I mean, c'mon Britney-- your ex-husband is K-Fed. The *entire free world* thinks you can do better than him in line for tater tots at the Sonic, and we don't even *like you* very much. At least not since you gained the gut, began chain smoking, popped out two kids, started hanging out with Paris the Wonder Scab, and all the rest.

But let's be honest: even as high-grade looney as Britney is right now, there's simply NO WAY she's a worse parent than K-Fed, who'd probably sell his kids on Craigslist in order to score enough money for a "Don't Cha (Wish Your Girlfriend Was Hot Like Me)" ringtone.